Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine: Improving Health and Longevity with Native Nutrition
Product Description
This book traces the cause of many chronic health problems to our modern diet and shows how a return to traditional foods can improve one’s well-being.
Modern medicine now recognizes that the present-day Western diet is responsible for many of today’s chronic illnesses. Nutritionists and anthropologists have noted the decline in health that accompanies indigenous peoples’ transition from traditional to modern diets. In Traditional Foods Are Your Bes… More >>
Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine: Improving Health and Longevity with Native Nutrition
No related posts.
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
This book can be a companion book to other books recommended by the Weston Price Organization. It is more or less an “encyclopaedic” type style to traditonal foods information using the Weston Price book as a guideline, but going into a more of an updated, and practical style.
There is a lot information that I found useful, such as the grading of salmon (which I never knew about), or getting calcium from eggshells to name just a few. However, he does not tell you how much calcium you are getting by eating eggshells. Also, I could never grind it to a powder in a blender as he said. I had better results with just a mortar and pestle.
On saturated fats, try as I might, I cannot find anything he has to say against the use of saturated fats as criticized by Fallon or Brynes. (Perhaps they have become somewhat fanatical about Price’s diet). He is, however, against the modern way of raising animals which he believes is not the same as our ancestors. He points out that a lot of animal’s mouths are being used as convenient garbage dumps, and proceeds to name all the types of garbage being eaten, that’s right, garbage! This may alter the fat content, metabolism, ratios, etc., to a state that may not be healthy for you or the animals fed on such a diet. I agree on this point wholeheartedly! But, in no way do I see him telling us in the meantime to eat vegetables only and avoid all animal products! Properly raised animals that is.
There is also an explanation of the death rate of earliers years of how long Americans live are skewed. I never quite understood this, as I read about it in other books but there is no explanation how they concluded this, but he gives it here and it’s so simple to understand! This should tip you off that this book is fairly lucid and logically written and I highly recommend it for a better overall view and guide to the Weston Price diet.
Rating: 4 / 5
I am a Registered Dietitian that uses a holistic approach to nutrition and I feel this book is a valuable addition to any nutritionists library. Lacks a bit of detail in research areas, but is a good branch of the Weston Price tree.
Rating: 4 / 5
Awesome book on the principles of traditional healing foods. This is a great addition for anyone who wants to learn true nutrition and about the great discoveries by Weston. A Price. I highly recommend it!
Rating: 5 / 5
Dr. Schmid’s book on healing, nurturing traditional foods is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to understand what *real* nutrition is all about. It shows the problems with our US Government-approved dietary recommendations and why following such dogma is making us all sick (while profiting pharmaceutical companies and the whole medical system)! Get past all the vegetarina/low fat/vegan/cholesterol-is-bad doctrine and learn how to *really* be healthy, just as countless people through the millennia have done!
Rating: 5 / 5
Greetings! If you are interested in this subject, I propose that you also read a book that is complementary to this one: Eat Right for Your Type, by Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo, who also has a web site.
Rating: 5 / 5